From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 13:04:12 MDT
Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
> Who wants to be tethered to a bloody house? Cyborgs require
> mobile internet connectivity.
I agree perfectly, and while I'm perhaps not quite fully there yet
equipment-wise I don't see what's available technologically as the
limiting factor. Example: some recent contract work required quaint
Quill & Parchment timesheets, complete with a Kafkaesque nightmare of
undated, version-less, hard-to-parse regulations and multiple
Quill-based signoffs combining to form a simmering stew of temporal
pollution, spewing shit into the future much like cooking tomato sauce
leaves crusty droplets on your stove, all paid for with your tax
dollars. After mapping it out logically I proved that I could never
again ever leave the house without a hefty cache of such ancient scrolls
in my backpack. Cost of interplanetary package delivery would make it
impossible to travel much beyond Luna, or anywhere w/o a nearby Fedex
dropoff point for that matter.
But the available technology seems not the limiting factor. The regs are
(assuming I want to get paid). Vinge's Unthinking Depths are to be found
deep in the dusty basements and spiderwebbed catacombs of bureaucracy.
-Mike
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